Evening plod tonight, same route as last time which according to map my run is 3.9km.

Goes uphill to start, which isn't too bad as I still have some energy then!

Tonight though I was tracked by a group of flies nearly the whole way...they even preferred me to my dog, so I'm not sure what that says about my attractiveness! I spent a lot of time waving my arms in the air manically, so when it rained for the last ten minutes of my outing I was actually quite pleased.

Got home and then noticed the dog had found some fox poo to roll in as she had it both sides of her neck. Not sure if that had repelled or attracted the flies

I was once attacked by a butterfly (to the limited extent to which a butterfly can "attack" you). It must have noticed the syllable "fly" in its name and tried to live up to that. It wanted to drink the sweat of my smelly feet for some reason, and kept landing on me and licking me with its proboscis. Eventually it got quite annoying, although it was a bit hilarious to begin with.

Mine, the other day, seemed to be attracted to my earphones. It took quite a while for them to find something more interesting, and leave me in peace.

To my lasting disgrace, in a fit of rage a few days ago, I merged two flies on my leg who were so deeply in love (they were a-courting at the time) that they were never aware of the slow, angry hand that smashed down on them from the skies above.

Yes, and the flavour of flies has converted many a person to the vegetarian diet, as you can see, even here.